And let's not forget that American on the local level is ruled by, among other wealthy cohorts, car dealership owners. In this country where public highway funding has enabled the fortunes of entire generations of local gentry, you'll have to find another group of up-and-coming business people who see an opportunity for themselves in breaking the power of the transportation monopoly.

How much of this is them wanting a grunt workforce who'll work for cheap and to not deal with college graduates who might have questions for their bosses and demands for industry standard pay & benefits.

But they're not even good information retrieval systems. Their fundamental design is to mash their data together in a giant stew of probability.

I can't wait for the fallout of turning work over to a program that makes shit up. How many ticking time bombs and errata are there now in the troves of corporate documents that people are using LLMs to churn out every day?

If it's an LLM powered search engine, then it's strictly worse than what we used to have because it doesn't return information, it returns a statistically likely arrangement of words. Hallucinations are how LLMs work: mashing together words/tokens in its training set to give you a series of words that are likely to occur. "Training" is just a cover, the industry cannot solve a problem that is the foundation of how the system works.

Oh wonderful. In exchange for company access to the entire library catalogue, the public gets a shitty semantic search engine that can only work by probabilistically stringing words together. This will do nothing for people who need factual information.

AND we're going to stubbornly refuse to do anything about it.

Sadly no longer for sale so this new one is your only official option now.

And 640k should be enough for everyone too, right?